Question

I need to add a span to change the text color, but only when the text follow a certain format. For example:

<div>
    Random text. 
    <br>
    x. I want to add a span to this line
    <br>
    Not this one.
    <br>
    x. Yes to this.
    <br>
    x. And this!
</div>

In this example, I want to add a span to the lines that start with x.. I can’t change the format and the text is not inside “p”.

Answer 1

jsfiddle

$("div").html($("div").html().replace(/x\.(.*)/g, function(a){return "<span> " +a +"</span>"}));​